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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tomorrow, the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, will lead thousands of students from various student unions in a march to the gates of Leinster House. The message they want to send to the Taoiseach is that given the huge budget surpluses now available to the Government, it is absolutely unacceptable if some portion is not used to address rampant, endemic student poverty and, in particular,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with disability will next meet. [41209/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education will next meet. [41217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €17 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all illness and injury payment benefits to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to re-instate the funding for transport to and from a location (details supplied) in Wicklow for a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 597. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the €110,000, which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for this new post; if he can confirm if unused funding from budget 2023 will carry over to 2024, while providing a timeline as to when the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 598. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the funding which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit in conjunction with the National Office of Clinical Audit, NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 665. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a full list of those who were paid the €1,000 Covid bonus payment, broken down into the different groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if the security officers working in vaccination centres and those working in hospitals were awarded the Covid €1,000 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42760/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Saturday, 7 October, a few days before the budget is announced, the Cost of Living Coalition will hold a national demonstration. Assembling at Parnell Square at 1 p.m., trade unionists, student unions, pensioners' groups, housing groups, anti-poverty activists and many more will march to the Dáil to demand urgent action to deal with the crushing impact of the cost-of-living, housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste listing the Government's so-called achievements will come as cold comfort to the hundreds of thousands of people who are in arrears. If its measures were so effective, why are 256,000 electricity customers and one in five gas customers in arrears? This is before we head into the winter months. People who are in that situation face a terrifying prospect. If it is all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would if they were like they to used to be, with proper energy prices.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Go on.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By indicating the Government intends to vote against our motion seeking to reinstate the eviction ban for no-fault evictions, the Government - Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party - has essentially said it is okay that thousands more, including families, individuals and children, will end up homeless and in emergency accommodation with all the trauma and suffering that involves....

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which we proposed.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — on 22nd February, 2023, Dáil Éireann agreed the second reading of the Eviction Ban Bill 2022; — in the intervening period, the number of homeless people has risen sharply, with an additional 1,093 people, which includes an additional 398 children, living in emergency homeless accommodation; — there has...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Ministers know, we are very consistent in that regard. We think the Government has to spend more but needs to raise it elsewhere. There is general acceptance and acknowledgement that those who are less well-off and on lower incomes, and even people on modest incomes, have been disproportionately hit by the cost-of-living crisis, whether it is the proportion they have to spend on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mantra has been that we cannot fully protect people from the impact. It is not just those on the very lowest income but also the average working family who are dealing with higher costs at every level. They have been hammered, whether it is with energy costs, groceries, mortgage interest or rent. There are loads of different estimates on this but in real terms, low- and middle-income...